my dude, statesian imperialism has always been happening. this is coming from a californian who has not liked it and has been voting, demonstrating, and doing what i can politically to influence stuff the other direction. our votes change internal politics a fair amount. international politics, Democrat or Republican it don't matter one fuck the US is the US, it's mostly run by the career politicians.

This is where Trump coming in fucks things up in a completely different way than previous presidents and differently than his first term, because he's gutted the career politicians out of the agencies that make up the US government, for example the folk at the state department who've been there since Carter, ones who had no political loyalty just loyalty to US imperialism, and replaced them with folks who only have loyalty to Trump. I've been struggling to find the words to describe the enormity and speed of the corruption that's happened in the last year and a half. To call it mindboggling does it a disservice. Mindboggling only puts you about a quarter, maybe a sixth of the way down the path of befuddlement down to where krasnov is.